NGem is a small utility that can help you to resolve assembly references (third-party or you own framework stuff). This is the second post on how to work with NGem. Lets assume you create a new project and start with creating its directory: In the new project directory you can now run NGem to reso... [More]

NGem is a small utility that can help you to resolve assembly references (third-party or you own framework stuff). This is the first post on how to work with NGem. So lets imagine you have created a few assemblies: The assembly in the directory ObjectModel.Data relies on the one called ObjectModel... [More]

I’d really like to thank Scott Hanselman for digging into the nitty gritty details of how to change the Visual Studio Default Browser. But… let me cite one of the comments: “Should adding browser options to Visual Studio be <sarcasm>this easy</sarcasm>?” I hope we all agree on: Go fix th... [More]

I was really enthusiastic about Nu as I first read about it. But the problem for a lot of customers and also for myself is that it cannot cope with private assemblies – stuff that is not open source. Today I started a new open source project with Philip – NGem: A gem like 3rdPartyAssembly resolver ... [More]

Last week I did talks on ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Controls at the .NET Developer Group Braunschweig and Dotnet User Group Dortmund. This way I’d like to thank Lars Keller and Paul Mitzel as well as all attendees for joining and havig such a great time! Slides will be up on the user group pages soon a... [More]

I just went over to itunes to get the black keys album brothers. What an amazing experience again. Let’s crunsch some numbers: The album has 15 tracks itunes crashed 22 times until all downloads finished. WTF #1 Last but not least… itunes did not add the tracks to my purchases or my library.... [More]

The last days proved what I was telling a lot of people in the last years on training and coaching gigs… Ayende praises “The return of the secretary”. Donald writes about “the brownfield mess”. I’m so with these guys! I feel the pain too. In my opinion there have been some *dark place... [More]